Chapter 5: Dong-Yul
This is a UUR rank skill, it's in the top of the top skills, it's already powerful and it's still at level 1.
The maiden continued talking, as you know the skills can only be improved 10 times with the corresponding books, if one day I manage to improve it to the maximum level then it will be terrifying.
She hugged me while she didn't stop talking, don't worry you will also find class skills that will make you very powerful and your class is not a first line fighter like me, you are a support class, besides you already do great and above all your courage knows no limits orion53, now let's pick up the stones left by these persistent vermin.
I kissed her while I drew her more in my arms and said come on not to be dazzled are her warm smile, we began the cleaning operation collecting every material left by the extinct herd of rodents, fur, claws or mana stones.
The mana stones were found in every creature including humanoid races, but it depended on the level of the target for the mana stones to be purer and contain more mana, these crystals were only considered to be of the lowest "G" rank.
Author's note: from now on the mana cores will be called mana stones or mana crystals because Andromeda has different ways of calling the same object, you can consider them synonymous words, when we checked deep in the caves we found two chests in the middle of a sea of bones, apparently the rats piled the bones of their victims here and the hard materials like metal or things that could not eat inside the chests, if the game was configured with a certain degree of realism even though not everything had logic.
The maiden opened the first chest and found a blue book. When we checked it was a book with the ability fire arrow a skill not compatible with us, also there were some rusty daggers a set of 5 small daggers not very useful but could be useful. We kept them in our inventories. That at this point were almost full, then we opened the second chest this one contained a right of purchase, we identified it and the following information came out:
Right to Purchase.
An item that allows you to buy a property in the elven cities and hire people to work on the premises if required.
This was very valuable she gave it to me and said keep it with your life if you lose it you will not see a year, to which I laughed and replied do not worry I will keep it with my life because my middle name is the one that does not lose things, inside there were also 14 gold coins without a doubt we were rich.
We have to return to the city now we have almost no space for things our inventories are full and we ran out of potions, do not you think it would be good to buy a pack animal to carry more items we have 500 skins, 700 claws, and rat meat for 600 units in addition to 3012 mana crystals. I imagine they must be worth something.
You're right Maria replied, let's go back but we're also going to buy a cookbook, you're going to learn how to cook.
I was stunned and replied for me. She made a gesture with her hand which made me even angrier, it worked because she managed to silence me immediately, and then she said something that left me speechless, "you said you would make me coffee all my life, so you better learn how to do it right".
I just lowered my arms in resignation, at least I know who wears the pants in this relationship, I mean the frying pan.
We returned to the city killing some rabbits and deer without much trouble, upon arriving in the city we proceeded to go to the local market to sell the meats then we went to the tailors and sell the skins and claws and then headed to the alchemy workshops to sell the crystals at the end we only had 20 gold coins in total adding up all our previous fortune, Definitely each gold coin was very precious, we went to the stables to buy a horse, but it cost 50 gold coins the cheapest one, so we could only settle for buying a donkey, in fact it was better because it could carry more things. We named him Platero because with him we would generate more wealth. We looked at the merchants if they could sell us the cooking skill and nobody wanted to teach us that skill at least no NPC, so we turned to the players in the squares we found a cookbook that sold it for 4 gold coins, it was a very expensive price at this stage of the game, with the last gold coin we bought a lot of materials for the kitchen and 3 dozen health potions and 1 of mana.
I was not against the investment of the last 5 gold coins, in fact I was tired of eating stale bread and I thought it was a good idea to learn how to prepare my own food.
I learned the skill and we left the city once again accompanied by Platero this time we go slower, but at the same time he is sure that we would save a lot of time since we would not have to return to the city so often, we began our journey we returned to enter the rat cave we cleared it this time without mishap, we found no books, only 2 gold coins and spear in bad condition when we left there we continued with our journey we seemed cursed on the way we saw a black bear that was chasing a group of elves we did not know if they were NPCs or players, so we approached carefully and asked if they needed our help was strictly forbidden for an elf player to attack another at this stage of the game if they did they would not be captured by any elf either NPC or player and his account would be killed 10 times in the dungeons for that reason no player attacked another in elven territory, the elven code was clear honor and justice was valued any act of cowardice and treason was severely punished.
As it turned out, they did need help. I provided healing in the rear, the maiden fearlessly attacked the giant bear, in less than 2 minutes the bear was on the ground and a young girl was on the head of the beast that disappeared in a beautiful gray lotus.
The players thanked us they were 5, two females and 3 males then told us that they had a mission to check for the decline of deer, according to the mission assigned something disturbed the bears alfagris and devours the deer in these hills, but these bears are very strong and attack first person they see, for them it was impossible to advance further with their current strength. The reward is from the mission was 100 gold coins.
And if we help them they are willing to give us 20 gold coins, well I said I, we head to the onyx hills to help them with their mission because of all our destiny is crossing the onyx hills.
Dong-Yul was a good looking young guy, he carried a sword and shield, he led the way very cautiously and in an orderly manner, his scout carried a bow and boots that made fire with his red gloves definitely was a good team better than that of my partner and I, who were in the rear dragging Platero, The next guy carrying a spear and a shield was also young, about 17 years old, the grumpy woman carried a staff similar to mine but her tunic was like that of a sorcerer or healer, she was probably a shaman who specialized in healing magic and the only problem with her was that she kept complaining about how difficult it was to walk around this place, The other one on the other hand apparently was a tamer, she had by her side a level 20 giga moose and a golden eagle of 3 meters wingspan when she opened her wings, if she was right she was level 15 but she was quite nice, I honestly did not know how these guys could not deal with an alphagris bear, Apparently the average level of the group was 30, maria and I were only level 11, we had only started to level up 2 days ago, we had only matched rodents, I would say that we were already experts at killing rats, these were numerous but they didn't provide much level.
I told them why a high level team is forced to escape from that bear, to which they replied, you do not understand that bear had level 45 and was elite so we almost annihilated I do not know what level you have, but surely you do not go below level 40 seeing how they loaded that bear, although it is true that we had already removed 80 percent of his life.
We encountered more bears, the maiden always attacked ahead to then receive the support of the shield bearers, I could only observe that there was practically no danger, we have already exterminated more than 50 bears, the explorer had the luxury of going to provoke more bears, definitely this was a good leveling zone.
Soon we reached the top of the onyx hills, we are on the highest hill of this hill system, it had taken us about 8 hours to get here walking at a fast pace, when we looked at the valley we saw the reason why the deer were almost extinct in this region and the bears were so desperate for food, a herd of angry rats their number seemed unreal because I think they were 10,000. My hair stood on end in sheer terror.
Dong-Yul said well we already found the cause we will withdraw from this place, accompany us, yes I said, I did not plan to go through these rats.
No! said the maiden, she stared at me while reciting the next sentence. Their mission is complete, ours is not yet and she is passing those rats, I looked at her and sighed sincerely I thought our mission would be impossible at this point.
I looked at Dong-Yul and his companions and told them that they can go back now.
Well he said but wait until the day after tomorrow we will come back with more people this is a good hunting ground, although you can no longer gain the experience of the mission but have these 20 gold coins, so your trip with us will not be in vain we will be back here in two days with a bigger group I hope you will still have your accounts by then.
The maiden replied while looking at the rats as if they were her mortal enemy, she was definitely determined to annihilate them.
Maria and I decided to kill bears to fortify ourselves we hunted bears for 3 more hours before disconnecting for dinner.